...Valerie Vasquez Professor Thompson ENG101 January 28, 2015 Reading Response: Spriggs 1. In the essay “On Buying Local” Katherine Spriggs makes it clear that this topic matters to her. She did convince me to start thinking about buying locally, not only did she mention on pg. 96 that it is a healthier and environmental choice, but it also helps small farmers around the valley to grow. 2. A counter argument that Spriggs put in this essay was that the Professor in Wyoming that she mentions in paragraph 10 pg. 98 that if people were to buy locally that would be bad towards people because food can be produced cheaper somewhere else. She fought back with the statement that although it would be more expensive than buying “industrially grown” products that it is also better for the environment to buy locally. 3. In paragraph 8 pg. 96 I like the fact that Spriggs stated that buying locally is eco-friendly and that it would reduce the high cost of fuel and energy used to transport food across the world. That is definitely effective because that will make readers see that she did some research and she knows that it would help in the long run. 4. Sprigg’ photos contributes to the essay because in each paragraph she talks about something different having to do with buying locally. She includes some local farmers’ products and some pictures to show readers a visual perspective in what she is saying and to back up her information....
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... Explore the following resources in the Kaplan Library, along with the link from the United States Department of Agriculture, to learn more about the foods humans rely on and the variety of ways in which these foods can be acquired. Roosevelt, M. (2006). The lure of the 100-mile diet. Time, 167(24), 78. Cosier, S. (2007). The 100-mile diet. E: The Environmental Magazine, 18(5), 42. Cooper, C. (2007). 100 miles and counting. Food In Canada, 67(3), 7. Macpherson, C. (2007). You are where you eat. Ascent Magazine, (33), 46. Source: United States Department of Agriculture. (2012). The people’s garden. Retrieved from http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/-usda/usdahome?navid=PEOPLES_GARDEN For this Assignment, you will write an essay in which you analyze a meal provided to...
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...People choose of buying those items because they found it more convenient and comfortable For instance, during olden days locally brewed wine Ara filed in container, Jandoop and do offers as and when required and today, instead of promoting such culture, people make offering of bottle beer which is readily available from the market. Therefore, such changed in behavior of traditional way of offering has resulted as negative aspects to Bhutanese traditional values and...
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...In this essay I will be examining the ethical concerns of the communities within a selected business of my choice. I will be examining Tesco ethical concerns of the community. Tesco is one of the largest supermarkets in the UK as they have a price value and quality food. Tesco has even branch out to other countries and now in 12 different countries around the world. The discussion begins with a critical analysis of how these ethical concerns affect local communities. These ethical concerns could be where Tesco produce their food or how they buy their product or who sources their food for Tesco. We must therefore acknowledge that one of the biggest concerns which many people feel in relation to the issue on how Tesco sources their products. It is increasingly the case that people buy products based on the distance that they have been transported. The amount of packaging they have and the place in which they originated. The influence of poverty has been strongly felt with the fair trade movement receiving considerable support, to the point where the majority of coffee is now fair trade certified at Tesco. All of these are ethical concerns within the different communities on how Tesco operates. Tesco need to address these issues of having more locally source food this is one of the main concerns of the communities. As it has more chance that it will have less of a carbon footprint and their for more chance that it will have of supporting local industries. Meaning reducing global...
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...INT401I/202/0/2015 Tutorial letter 202/0/2015 Information and Technology Management INT401I Year Module School of Computing IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains model answers for assignment 6. CONTENTS 1 Tutorial letters that you should have read to date .......................................................................... 3 2 Model answers for assignment 6................................................................................................... 3 Unisa PO Box 392, UNISA, 0003 Copyright © Unisa 2015 In terms of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 no part of this material may be reproduced, be stored in a retrieval system, be transmitted or used in any form or be published, redistributed or screened by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of Unisa. However, permission to use in these ways any material in this work that is derived from other sources must be obtained from the original sources. Printed in South Africa by Unisa. 2 INT401I/202 1 Tutorial letters that you should have read to date Title TUTORIAL LETTER 101/0/2015 TUTORIAL LETTER 201/0/2015 TUTORIAL LETTER 202/0/2015 (this tutorial letter) Description Tutorial letter 101 contains important information about your module. Tutorial letter 201 contains model answers for assignment 5 and the Oct/Nov 2015 examination and Jan/Feb 2016 supplementary examination preparation...
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...been the leading brand in the world with just one retail store at Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. By selling the best quality coffee, providing high class customer service and related products, their main aim was to become the leading brand of finest coffee in market locally and internationally. Non retail channels such as United Airlines, Barnes, Marriot International and department stores were buying coffee and tea products from Starbucks as well. With not only selling of coffee, Starbucks had their own hand made beverages and a variety of sandwiches and salads in some markets. In relation to tea and coffee, items like coffee brewers, and espresso machines were included in Starbucks merchandise. These essay will first talks about Starbucks make or buy strategy. Following Starbucks make or buy strategy; we will look at their supplier selection and evaluation system. After looking at Starbucks supplier selection and evaluation system, we will be looking at Starbucks purchasing cost analysis. We will discuss possible issues Starbucks may face and come up with some recommendations to address these problems. Starbucks Make or Buy Strategy The current situation in Starbucks now is that they are buying their furniture from the company called Viesso. Viesso is well known for designing furniture for relaxation, working, studying, lounging, socializing and many more. Starbucks have been purchasing furniture from them as they want their customers to feel cosy, students to relax...
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...La Senza Corporation is a Canadian fashion retailer based in Dorval, Quebec, Canada, selling lingerie and intimate apparel. Their primary objective is to maintain the quality of their products and identify what their customer needs in order to maintain their competitive advantage. Their goal is high integrity and ethical performance and establishing a positive relationship in the communities in which they are located. La Senza was bought by Limited Brands an American company in 2006. Currently all of its lingerie products are imported through MAST (a Limited Brands ‘network of suppliers located primarily outside of Canada). Since the buyout, it has experienced decreasing sales in Canada and now has fewer than half its original stores count. The challenge for La Senza is to be a good corporate citizen by maintaining and creating positive social relationship, as well as ethical practices, while still achieving their economic and financial responsibilities to their shareholders. Since the change of ownership, La Senza’s annual sales have dropped for more than a year since 2008. In 20013, La Senza made $72.8 million in the first quarter down $ 3.5 million from 2012 and a failing stock value from $52.12 per share to a stock value is currently at $49.79 per share. In 2010 it closed the Canadian La Senza Girl stores due to poor productivity. At the beginning of 2013 La Senza had 158 stores operating in Canada but as today they have 157 stores and it is on the verge of closing another...
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...Produce an essay plan and then write an essay that addresses the following: Outline the argument that supermarket power is a ‘zero-sum’ game. Plan Define the nature of supermarket power and summarise power over consumer society. Summarise the major supermarkets in the UK Discuss Bauman * seduced and repressed, * Supermarkets allow repressed to take part. * Evidence Peter Jacksons study pg45/46 * Allen 2009 pg 25 Concepts - Allen 2009 pg 70 * Positive sum * everybody benefits, * Leading to economic regeneration. * Evidence Pro supermarket campaigners, Linwood. * zero sum * supermarkets thrive at expense of local stores * Gain more than high street and factories. * Evidence Anti supermarket campaigners, Patrick. Conclude – power of supermarket is growing due to consumer society, biggest 4 supermarkets account for ¾ of market in UK. Evidence in social sciences. Outline the argument that supermarket power is a ‘zero-sum’ game. It is useful to describe what supermarket power is. Over the last twenty years, supermarkets have played a vital role in redefining our shopping habits. This is due to factors such as value for money, convenience and freedom of choice but it is also due to the economic domination of supermarkets themselves. Supermarket power is divided into two sectors that work alongside each other; market power - the ability to influence marketing conditions including the price...
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...Hospitality environment • Make recommendations for companies to gain competitive advantage Skills Mapped: As listed in the course handbook. Feedback Assessment Criteria Weight % Actual % Strength Areas of Improvement Explain factors that affect the Macro environment –Overview of the UK Hospitality/Tourism/Culinary Arts Industry in general and application to the chosen industry. 30% Evaluate the impact of the past, current and future issues on a hospitality/tourism/culinary arts industry of your choice 30% Make suggestions to the industry of your choice in relation to how they shou ld react to the current trends and contemporary issues and gain competitive advantage. 30% Self – please see hand in guidelines for reports, essays and presentations below. 10% Deductions: Late Submission Total mark out of 100% 100% Contents Page 1: Introduction; aims and objectives 2: Size and scope of the UK hospitality industry 3: The Michelin starred restaurant sector 1. Size and scope 2.Historic overview 4: PESTEL and the macro/micro environment 1. Past 10 years 2. Current 3. Future 10 years 5. Competitive advantage within the sector 6: Conclusion and recommendations 7. Bibliography 8. Appendices Hospitality Management:...
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...Marketing plan for Buenos Aires Café Executive Summary Buenos Aires Café is an independent family run Argentinian restaurant in South East London. The proprietors serve authentic homemade cuisine, specializing in organic meat produce directly from the Pampas, paired with locally sourced Mendoza wines. The market segment has a concentrated approach, targeting local young professionals and families in the middle upper classes. This segment makes up the large proportion of the restaurant’s customer base, which has enjoyed continued growth while looking for other market segments. Buenos Aires Café offers great service and a relaxed dining experience. The restaurant uses prime beef products, which is ethically sourced, organic and consistent with demographic shifts in trends. The restaurant maintains a competitive edge within the geographic location; firstly as there is repeat business and an ever increasing loyal customer base. Secondly the quality of the produce and delivery. Business Objectives: * To maintain being the premier steak restaurant in South East London. * To provide high quality cuisine and a casual dining experience to customers. Executive Summary 2 Business Objectives: 2 1. Introduction 5 2. Environmental Analysis 5 2.1 Macro Analysis 5 Political Factors: 5 Economic Factors: 6 Social-cultural Factors: 6 Technological Factors: 6 2.2 Micro Analysis 7 Competitive rivalry: 7 Bargaining power of supplier: 8 Bargaining...
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...Tesco, corporations, society and consumers In this essay we are going to start to look closer at what is important for a business and what is important for society. We are going to look closer at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and find out what it means for a business and society. Some businesses, especially big businesses, shape many aspects of our lives. Some are around us all the time. Some have turnovers larger then a normal person can imagine. Some multi nationals have turnovers larger then some states. That being the case, how de we want them to conduct themselves? How do we want them to behave? To start, we have to answer some questions. What is important when you are a businessman and you manage a business? Do you have some responsibility to the society and the rest of the world? To answer these questions we are going to look at both sides of the spectrum. At one side of the spectrum we have the free market views of people like the economist Milton Friedman. He has argued that a business not should think about the society and the problems that the society meets. The only social responsibility of a business is to make money and get the highest profit as possible – anything else is theft from the shareholders pocket. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without...
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...Personal Energy Use Reducing your Personal Energy Use Ever since the human settlements and their population place pressure on the environment through the increasing demand for water, energy and land, and also through the production of wastes that includes greenhouse gas emission. These impacts can also be regard as direct, through the use of water, energy, and land, or indirect, through the production and distribution of goods and services that household consumes. There is evidence that our way of living and the direction of the development in today’s society are not considered ecologically sustainable. This essay is about exploring how we can use creative thinking to find a sustainable solution to a problem that we are currently facing, which is Climate Change. By applying the Osborn’s (1979) Creative Problem-Solving-process, together with creative thinking tools, this essay explore the way’s that we as an individual can come up with to reduce our consumption and change our habits to achieve a significant sustainable reduction in our personal energy use .This is achieved by identifying a problem, then generating ideas, then evaluating the potential solution the problem. The first step to Osborn’s (1979) CPSP is the fact-finding, which acquire us to identify the problem, and present fact about it for supporting. Individual demand for the energy is increasing day-by-day; there are many causes for it e.g. IT appliances, production and preparation of food and clothing demands, using...
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...History always requires us to place things in their context and to avoid judging the past through the eyes of the present. But this is not true and it’s actually the opposite looking at the ideological forces that have shaped North (First World) and South (Third World) countries relations for half a century. In this essay one will be looking at the question of to what extend can the process of colonialism be blamed for the problems being experienced by developing countries today? Also matters pertaining to African migration, the spread of Islam, gold and slaves will be included in this essay as they are central to the process of colonialism. Towards the end of the last century, with a long history already behind it European colonization branched out in quite different forms according to the place and the interests of the metropolis. According to Thirlwell (1994:60) it was “a transitional period in which brutal power relations existed alongside paternalist feelings of responsibility towards natives who needed to be civilised” thus, great powers put the then dominant ideas into practice opening up the way to the so called “development” (Thirlwell, 1994). According to Rist (1997:100) “colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another”. The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer. Thus, one believes that this root reminds us that the practice of colonialism usually involved the transfer of population to a new...
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...IMPACT OF TARGET IN INDIA Prepared for Richard Thomas, CEO Target, Minneapolis, Minnesota Prepared by Bhumi Gandhi Senior Research Consultant Target, Chicago, Illinois November 22, 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Target Corporation has decided to expand their business to India. The study was authorized by the CEO of Target when all other crew of the company approved for expansion business to India. The CEO of Target Corporation requested an evidence to show the positive impact of expansion. Our conclusion that Target will have positive impact in India is based on scholarly articles, cultural books and research. In order to achieve success in India, the company will have to consider these aspects of the culture: * Social customs: Target needs to adapt various cultural, religion and taste preferences. * Family life: Big quantities will be sold much faster as the basic building block of Hindu society is the joint or extended family. * Religion and Folk belief: Religion has a huge impact on the daily life of almost everyone in India. Business have to holidays on holy festivals of India. * Economic Institutions: Employees must get paid a monthly salary. Target has to compete with “Kirana” stores that sell groceries and food to consumers at a low price. On the basis of these findings, it is recommended that Target needs to offer products not only at a lower price but with good customer service. Target Corporation has to avoid selling beef...
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...An investigative report demonstrating the extents in which Bank of The Bahamas went through in order to survive during the recession. Research Paper Supervisor: Mrs. Gaitor Name: Ariana McWeeney Word Count : 2,518 Table of Contents Page Cover Page ………………………………………………………………. 1 Abstract …………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction…………………………………………………………… 3-4 Body ………………………………………………………………………. 5-14 Conclusion …………………………………………………………….. 15 Bibliography……………………………………………………………16-17 Abstract In this research paper I will be studying how Bank of The Bahamas continues to survive through the recession and the extents in which they went through in order to not suffer. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the bank and the efforts they undertook to survive such a devastating time to the economy. The key resources used in this research paper was primary research in which I had an interview with the managing director of Bank of The Bahamas. In addition to that I’ve used reliable online articles and IB Business and Management textbooks to investigate this topic to my fullest extent. INTRODUCTION This investigative report will demonstrate the extents in which Bank of The Bahamas went through in order to survive during the recession. This topic interests me because the recession is impacting not only The Bahamas but also everyone around the world. Many banks and businesses have had to close but Bank of The Bahamas in particular went through...
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